I'm against spending money to record.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

I've always been very intense about everything I do.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

I've always been such a nerd.

I think my sound is post-Internet.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I'm not trained in music.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.